In his proposed 2011-2013 biennial budget, Republican Gov. Scott Walker has proposed cutting transit aid by ten percent, with much of that figure coming from Milwaukee County, which has the state’s largest transit system. As if that’s not bad enough news for Milwaukee County’s transit system, Republican State Rep. Robin Vos has come up with [...]
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From the fine folks of the Western Kentucky AFL-CIO comes this unique rendition of “On, Wisconsin.” Poor Paul Ryan must be crying in his Wheaties over this…. House Republicans signaled on Thursday that they were backing away for now from the centerpiece of their budget plan — a proposal to overhaul Medicare — underscoring the political risks of addressing the nation’s long-term fiscal problem. The debt-ceiling talks were never likely to [...] From my email inbox comes news of a fundraiser on behalf of Democratic State Rep. Sandy Pasch, who’ll be challenging Republican State Senator Alberta Darling in the election to recall Darling: Click for full size If your last name is Koch or you have a 9 digit bank account, if not well then not so much! From JSONLINE and the Kaiser Family Foundation, a non-partisan health care research group. Paul Ryan’s budget plan to convert Medicaid into a block grant and repeal the new health care law would [...] Yesterday in Madison, they debated the \"Keep Wisconsin from voting act\" in committee. During this committee hearing, there were two events that happened and I am trying to figure out the difference between the two. Event number 1. Protesters disrupted the meeting. Protesters disrupt meeting Three protesters hijacked the Joint Finance Committee, [...] Just to follow up on Ed’s entry from yesterday, I’ve got some thoughts on the Voter ID legislation being pushed through the legislature by Republicans. For all their talk about balancing the state’s multi-billion dollar structural deficit, Republicans in the State Senate and Assembly don’t seem too concerned about adding nearly $6 million in costs [...] |
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